{"nrhp_refnum":"99000579","name":"Willmore, The","other_names":["The Stillwell"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"315 W. Third St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Long Beach","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.77076954300003,"lon":-118.195288458,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-05-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A privately owned, L-shaped high-rise apartment building at 315 West Third Street in Long Beach, California, completed in 1927 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. It was originally developed as \"The Stillwell\" and has ten- and eleven-story wings of reinforced concrete.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an outstanding local example of a luxury 1920s high-rise apartment building and the only Italian Renaissance Revival apartment building in Long Beach. It was designed by Fisher, Lake and Traver, architects of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It reflects the city's 1920s building boom and its shift toward a more cosmopolitan, urban character. Its integrity is described as very high.","narrative":"Completed in 1927 at the corner of West Third Street and Cedar Avenue in Long Beach, this L-shaped apartment tower rises ten and eleven stories in reinforced concrete. It was first marketed as The Stillwell, after its developers, and was later renamed the Willmore. Designed by Fisher, Lake and Traver in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, it was meant as a U-shaped complex, but only one wing was built. Its arcaded entry court, stucco shaft, glazed terra cotta details, skylit lobby and top-floor solarium reflect Beaux-Arts planning. Amenities included an underground garage for 100 cars and a commercial laundry. It rose during the oil and port boom that reshaped Long Beach in the 1920s, and the nomination finds no other Italian Renaissance Revival apartment building in the city to compare with it. Apart from replaced apartment windows, it looks much as it did when built, and it has been converted from an own-your-own plan to condominiums. The city designated it a landmark in 1986.","period_of_significance":"1927","architect_builder":"Fisher, Lake & Traver, architects; Trewhitt-Shields Company, builders","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Italian Renaissance","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as multiple-dwelling housing, now condominiums; described as in good condition with very high integrity. Apartment windows were replaced in the 1970s and seismic retrofit was done in 1991.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.031936-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/99000579.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000579/f2d0a42369-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000579/f2d0a42369-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Willmore_(Long_Beach).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Willmore_(Long_Beach).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859623","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Willmore","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65044925"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/willmore-the-99000579/"}